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Are porn addicts just a group to mock and shame?
I watched this video where this youtuber talks about going to art school and he watched a friend of his perform their work, where the friend had opened with a five minute monologue about 'gooning'. And the youtuber found no matter how much of an open mind he tried to have he couldn't get it. It wasn't until later when he talked with some of his guy friends, that his friends opened up to him about their porn addictions, some struggling with it since middle school, and that the monologue was the first time they've ever felt seen and that their addiction wasn't treated like a joke.
After hearing and watching that I felt like I gained I new perspective. I realized there's some/a lot of vulnerability in that.. but idk. I feel like the stigma behind porn addictions is still really bad to take this new found perspective seriously.
i guess its because there are so many addictions and issues such as substance abuse that have more dire and directly observable consequences that people don't really know how to approach 'porn addictions'. most often people see the victims of 'porn addictions' not being the individual but the people around them. for example- when u open up reels an...... reply
